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Spraying to all fields … • Ex-Warhawks on the move: A reminder that it's not where you start but how you finish that really matters for student-athletes at the collegiate level. That's good news for three North Chicago grads who excelled on the basketball court and graduated together in June 2014. Kurt Hall, JayQuan McCloud and JaVairius Amos-Mays were sophomores on the North Chicago team that finished second in the Class 3A state tournament in 2012, then led the Warhawks to the supersectional as juniors and seniors. All three then went to college last fall to play basketball, with Hall going to Toledo, McCloud to Murray State and Amos-Mays to Kirkwood Community...

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